New legal obligation for businesses using cash register systems
Requirement to report electronic cash registers: Deadline on 31 July 2025
In a Circular on 28 June 2024 the Federal Ministry of Finance announced that from 2025 there will be a Germany-wide requirement to report on electronic cash registers. This rule had been suspended until now because of a lack of technical implementation on the level of German Tax Offices. Now that this function has been added to the German online tax return portal www.elster.de, the conditions have now been met for the businesses concerned to fulfil this reporting requirement.